Motivational Quotes

Humor

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Humor

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Albee, Edward

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Hemingway, Ernest

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Martin, Steve

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Horace

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Dick Clark

10.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

11.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Eco, Umberto

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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Diller, Phyllis

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Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Gary, Roman

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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Borge, Victor

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Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Truman, Harry S

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

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Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

Keillor, Garrison

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

Proverb, Chinese

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Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.

Clark, Dick

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Bruce, Lenny

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Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

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If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.

David Nicholls

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

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Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

Rosten, Leo

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The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

Knox, Ronald

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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

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Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.